For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform

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1. Medical civil rights activists march, 1963

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Medical Committee for Civil Rights participates in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Many physicians, nurses, and medical students worked in the civil rights movement. They marched against segregation, treated people injured in protests, and helped set up community clinics in both the North and the South.